We started this series with a view of the Campania Plain and Naples as a sort of “living Pompeii” before that city’s burial in AD
Category: Campania
The Campania Plain, Part 5: Neapolitan Volcano Hazards
Campania has good reason to be proud of its volcanoes: Asleep, these beautiful but strange mountains draw tourists and also serve as ground water aquifers
The Campania Plain: Part 4, Campi Flegrei
Gah! How can anyone live there?!!? Well, from our perspective, Campi Flegrei (the “Burning Fields”) is actually quite pretty. Look for saddle-shaped Vesuvius in the
The Campania Plain: Part 3, Vesuvius
It’s time to look out over the Gulf of Naples from Mount Vesuvius on a sunny Mediterranean day! That landmass you see at the start,
The Campania Plain: Part 2, Ischia Volcano
No, Italy’s beautiful Monte Epomeo, shown above, is not the volcano. This mountain is “just” a block of 50,0000-year-old greenish ignimbrite pushed up by volcanic
The Campania Plain, Part 1: Introduction, and a Hurricane of Ash
Pompeii sits on the Campania Plain–a rich land that stretches, between the sea and the Apennine Mountains, down Italy’s Mediterranean coast south of Rome to
